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It’s just resumé driven development. Corporate droids gotta justify their salaries somehow. It doesn’t pay to call software “done”.
by sneak 9mo ago
It’s just resumé driven development. Corporate droids gotta justify their salaries somehow. It doesn’t pay to call software “done”.
- cyanydeez 9mo agoMicrosoft is driving AI adoption. Why blame tge workers for this?
- throwpoaster 9mo agoMicrosoft is comprised of its workers.
- jdsampayo 9mo agoAll workers are equal, but some workers are more equal than others
- stalfosknight 9mo agoI have been thinking about this Animal Farm quote a lot recently.
- wormpilled 9mo agoWhy can't Indian software developers stand up for themselves and say no?
- vachina 9mo agoHard to say no to paycheck
- onion2k 9mo agoBecause there are plenty of developers who'll say yes, so anyone saying no is putting their ethics ahead of their livelihood. Few people will be willing to put their beliefs ahead of providing for their family. It's easy to say you will, and very hard to actually do it.
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- eterm 9mo agoThat's what ethics are. If you don't make sacrifices for them they aren't ethics they're just conveniences.
- trinix912 9mo agoThis is easy to say until you're an immigrant worker in a foreign country - something one probably worked for their entire life up to that point - risking it all (and potentially wrecking the life of their entire family) just to stop some random utility from having a Copilot button. It's not "this software will be used to kill people", it's more like "there's this extra toolbar which nobody uses". In life you have to choose your battles.
- xantronix 9mo agoI hadn't made more solid connections between the current state of software and industry, the subjugation of immigrants, and the death of the American neoliberal order until this comment thread but it here it lies bare, naked, and essentially impossible to ignore. With regards to the whole picture, there's no good or moral place to "RETVRN" to in a nostalgic sense. The one question that keeps ringing through my head as I see the world in constant upheaval, and my one refuge in meaning, technical craftsmanship, tumbling, is: Why did I not see this coming?
- optymizer 9mo ago"why won't other people make sacrifices for me?" Because the society in US is arranged as a competition with no safety net and where your employer has a disproportionate amount of influence on your well being and the happiness of your kids. I'm not going to give up $1M in total comp and excellent insurance for my family because you and I don't like where AI is going.
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- mghackerlady 9mo agoIt's a cultural thing. They'd much rather do what they think someone means than question authority
- whatsupdog 9mo agoUnjustified downvoting. You absolutely have a point. Not just software, also the gazillion UI/UX designers. They keep moving things around and changing colors and fucking things up just to justify their salaries. Case in point: Google maps. It was perfect 15 years ago. We don't need vomit inducing color changes every 2 years
- jahsome 9mo agoAnd yet, if they were raising a Series A, they'd be lauded as "disruptors"
- zerkten 9mo agoEven if you talk to users, you can do it the wrong way. Big companies are incentivized by the stock market to care more about new users than existing ones because their only focus is growth. Growth can't be rooted in your existing users is a common feeling in product management circles. If you try to do things for people other than your existing users, then you end up doing odd stuff that at best is a mild annoyance. More likely you hurt their ability to continue using the app.
- wlesieutre 9mo agoExemplified by every website with a massive SIGN UP button and then a little 8 pt font log in tucked away somewhere underneath. Gee thanks for helping me find the button I'll use literally once and making me hunt for the one I'll need the other 99999 times I use this service. Existing users can go fuck themselves as long as new people are registering. Line go up!
- bradfitz 9mo agoI can’t tell you how relieving it is to hear somebody else complain about this. This has been my pet peeve for ages.
- ThrowawayB7 9mo agoIndividual developers or even developer management doesn't get much of a say in product direction at large corporations. The product management folks are who decide what features go in and when.
- GuinansEyebrows 9mo agoPMs have resumes too :) - Successfully led key efforts to modernize aging platform technologies - Directed integration of cutting-edge system-wide artificial intelligence functionality